Lane, who will be the commission's fourth director, replaces attorney Jeff Davis who has led the agency since 2010. Davis is leaving to become executive director of the State Bar of Georgia.

Lane, who's 67, has been a member of the Judicial Council of Georgia for six years and served on the executive committee of the state Council of Superior Court Judges.

Ingram says Lane will retire from his job as a superior court judge before he starts at the commission.

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Drunk drivers to be targeted during holiday travel

ATLANTA (AP) — The Governor's Office of Highway Safety says law enforcement agencies will be targeting suspected drunk drivers during the Fourth of July holiday weekend.

Officials say law enforcement agencies throughout Georgia will be aggressively targeting those suspected of driving drunk during the holiday next week.

Governor's Office of Highway Safety Director Harris Blackwood said in a statement that one driver is typically killed every five hours in Georgia during the Fourth of July holiday travel period.

Officials say 179 people were killed in crashes during the Independence Day travel period in 2012 and 44 percent of those crashes were linked to drunk drivers.

Officials say the holiday travel period runs for 78 hours between July 3 and July 6.

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Georgia awarded unemployment, job training grant

ATLANTA (AP) — Federal labor officials have awarded more than $300,000 to fund re-employment programs and eligibility assessments for the unemployed in Georgia.

The U.S. Department of Labor said Tuesday that the money awarded to Georgia is part of more than $68 million that was awarded to 37 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez said in a statement the grants will help states offer training to the jobless and will help Unemployment Insurance agencies ensure that payments are being made to people who actually need the help.

Officials say the funding will support in-person assessments at job centers where unemployment claimants will develop individual re-employment plans and more.

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Teenager shot to death south of Atlanta

RIVERDALE, Ga. (AP) — Police in Atlanta's southern suburbs are investigating a shooting that claimed the life of an 18-year-old man.

Clayton County police Officer Ashanti Marbury tells WXIA-TV that the man was shot in the chest Tuesday night on Clara Drive in Riverdale. He was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Police have not yet provided any information about a suspect or motive.

Riverdale is about 15 miles south of downtown Atlanta.

Information from: WXIA-TV.

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Child, 5, found unconscious in swimming pool

JONESBORO, Ga. (AP) — Authorities say a 5-year-old boy was in critical condition Tuesday night after he was found unconscious in a swimming pool south of Atlanta.

Clayton County police tell The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the incident happened shortly before 8 p.m. Tuesday at an apartment complex on Mount Zion Road.

Clayton County police Officer Ashanti Marbury said the first officer to reach the scene assisted a man who was already performing CPR on the boy. She said emergency responders took the boy to a hospital in critical condition.

Information from: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

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Bowling alley fire considered suspicious

ST. MARYS, Ga. (AP) — A fire official says a blaze that destroyed a bowling alley in the coastal Georgia town of St. Marys is considered suspicious.

St. Marys police detectives are trying to determine the cause of the Monday fire that destroyed the bowling alley, which has been vacant for several years.

St. Marys Fire Department Assistant Chief Tom Lackner said the building was already engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived. He said the roof began collapsing within five minutes of fire crews responding.

The Florida Times-Union reports that the nearly 17,000-square-foot building was once home to TNT Bowling Lanes. The structure was listed for sale for $250,000.

ATLANTA (AP) — Democrat Jason Carter is calling for an independent investigator to review the handling of ethics complaints against Gov. Nathan Deal that were at the center of three lawsuits filed against the state ethics commission.

Carter, who is running against Deal in November, made the request in a letter Wednesday to Attorney General Sam Olens. The complaints date back to the 2010 campaign, and Deal was cleared of any major violations by the commission.

Since then four former commission employees have claimed retaliation for work investigating the Deal complaints, and a jury sided with one of them in April. The state has decided to settle with the other three.

Deal's spokeswoman Jen Talaber says there is no connection to the governor's office and Carter is "playing politics" with the letter.

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